Former Southern Railway Depot -- Selma AL
N 32° 24.525 W 087° 00.835
16S E 498691 N 3585744
The former Southern Railway depot at Selma, now the Old Selma Museum
Waymark Code: WMWG5D
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2017
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The Old Depot Museum in Selma (formerly the site of the Confederate Naval Ordinance Works) feaures many artificats of the Selma Arsenal and the Selma Confederate Naval Ordinance Works.
From the Civil War Discovery Trail website: (
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"OLD DEPOT MUSEUM
The museum is housed in a former railing depot on site of Greater Confederate Naval Ordinance Works, which was second only to Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia, in manufacture of arms and munitions. Four Confederate "rams, " including the CSS Tennessee, were built here. Civil War-era artifacts are found in abundance at this museum, as well as other artifacts dating from 7000 B.C. through the Gulf War."
In front of the Old Depot Museum stands a HUGE anvil, with a plaque on it that reads as follows:
"Anvil used in Selma's Confederate Arsenal to make armament for southern forces. Presented to Sturdivant Museum Association April 1, 1961 by the Southern Railway Company, which, as the Selma Rome and Dalton Railroad Company, purchased the anvil among scrap disposed of at the Arsenal in 1866. The anvil was in use in the railroad blacksmith shop until 1936."